The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-19 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE. —TO - MORROW about either currency or credit; but Mr LINCOLN UNUSZAL APE. lAL HOr•IDAY ATTRACTIONS. is sanguine, thinking perhaps the national patience General T2O NI. TRUMB and his WIFE, Mrs. STRATTON, Miss MIN NIE WA iiREN (sister to Mrs. General TOM is as inexhaustible as the national resources. THUMB) and Commodore NUTT, will ho .d their SECOND . _ _ GRAND RECEPTION on the Great Orchestiaittli;(Fristal kalace, TO-MORROW (Tuesday), Dec. 20, at Three o'clock. The Reception will commence at Three o'clock in front of the Great orchestra. The full band of the Company will perform selections of popular music during :he Reception. Visitors will be allowed to pass to reserved seats on to the orchestra, being also ► ersonally introduced to the party. Tickets, One shilling each. The intan c daughter of the General and Mrs Stratton will be in oitet, dance in the large room adjoin ng the Egyptian Court from. Two o'clock. Tickets, Halt-a-Crown each, will give admi colon to the latter as well as entitle to seats on the Great Or(;hestra during the Reception. No extra charge for admission. One Shilling only. A ddi tional railway trains. The Palace welt warmed, and every thing under cover. Open at Ten. Visitors shouli come early. CRYSTAL PALACE. -TO - MORROW.- The only place to spend a pleasant day. FREE FRO3I COLD, 14`0G, RAIN, or SNOW. Palace open from Ten. Wanied and brilliantly lighted up at dusk. THE WINTER GARDEN OF THE 11 ORLD. CRYSTAL PALACE, - 'l'o - MORROW . - Warraed and brilliantly lighted up at dusk. One baffling. NOTE. To-day the palace was bathed in the most brilliant sunshine. The interior, warmed up t 055 degrees of Fahren heit (the temperate point), was a most agreeable promenade. -F4IFEBOAT SERVICES,—During the storms of the past year the boats of the National Lifebeat Institution have saved 426 persons from different wrecks on our coasts, The Institution also expended £11,770 in the same periud on lifeboat establishments, in addition to grant ing £1,497 as rewards for saving 692 shipwrecked persons by its lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A PPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 138 lifeboat establishments. According to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, the expenses to be provided during the current year, including the interest of the public debt, amount to 1,400,000,000 dole., of which the customs and miscellaneous sources are estimated to produce 788,000,000 dole., or little more than half, leaving 620,000,000 dole. Further measures re duce this amount to 482,000,000 dole., which are to be supplied by loans. Mr FESSENDEN objects to the negotiation of a foreign loan, which might perhaps be difficult to obtain, and therefore the loyal people of the States are to be called upon to invest their capital atilt further in " the national private property." Mr LINCOLN recommends the Congress to pass a constitutional amendment abo lishing slavery throughout the United States. He also informs them that in consequence of depreda tions on the Canadian frontier, the stipulated six months' notice has been given to Great Britain that the United States will increase their naval force on the lakes, so that our North American kinsfolk are not premature in their movements for concentrating their forces. It would certainly be advisable that Great Britain should take the hint and place a strong naval force on the lakes by way of preventing de predations on a larger scale. The President had better act upon the remark of his Secretary to the Treasury, who expresses his opinion that if the ex pense and duration of the war had been foreseen it would not have been undertaken. Mr LINcoLN is, however, as yet a long way from confessing this. He talks very largely of the amnesty offered to the Southerners, and continues to make its terms appear very elastic, but the Southerners are not inclined to accept them. Ho says that though DAVIS cannot re-enter the Union his followers are not pledged, but if they decline his offers he threatens the adops Lion of more rigorous measures. Seeing that the new tactics of the Northern generals are to burn every house and devastate every corn field, it is not easy to see what more rigorous measures can be in the background. Meanwhile, in military matters, SHERMAN has not yet achieved his grand success. The accounts are most conflicting, the most noticeable discrepancy being between the Federal account, which places him biz miles from Savannah, and the Confederate version, which reports him eighty miles distant. As the Confederate are on the spot and have a much better knowledge of the locality, they are certainly likely to be better informed, supposing both accounts to be equally gen u i ne . O n th e 20 t h, SHER MAN i s said to have unsuccessfully attacked Macon, but again he is reported to have crossed the Aconee on the 23d, having been driven back next day. He is said to have captured Millen, and Federal trans sports of the 30th ult. state that he had occupied that city, and was then six miles from Savannah ; but Richmond papers, four days later, deny the capture of Millen, and report that the Federals had, in American phraseology, been " whipped," and their relief column completely defeated. If SHER MAN gets through, which is doubtful enough, the Southern journals pronounce that he will de so with the loss of half his army. They declare that he is hemmed in by peril, and not the least of hie dangers is the lack of supplies, for the destruction along his line of march is almost universal. His cavalry has been repulsed at Sandersville, and the Confes rates do not anticipate an attack upon Savannah, although they are fortifying the place as a matter of precaution, and HARDER has gone there report ing Macon to be perfectly secure. It has been made the temporary seat of the Lsgislature. It is now said that SUERMA.N'S object is Darien, but the continual shifting of this theoretical destination is very suspicious. A Federal column under FOSTER left Port Royal on the 29th to join him. Federal accounts state that they captured Parcelaligo Bridge between Charleston and Savan nah, but Southern versions report that they were severely defeated at Grahamsville, South Carolina, and driven back five miles, leaving their dead and wounded, but they still threatened another point on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. SHER. MAN'S army is continuing he same barbarous course of destruction, and the better feeling of the Federate themselves appears to be outraged by it. The NetoYerkrimes admits that his raid will only exasperate and harden the Southerners, and this can hardly be doubted, for, besides continuing his course of destruction in Georgia, he has ordered East Tennessee to be laid waste as far as Knox ville. Loyal residents had held a meeting to pro test against this act of wanton barbarity, but pro bably with little effect. HOOD is said to have been repulsed with the loss of six guns near Murfrees boro, but it is admitted that the real position on the Chattanooga Railway, four miles from Nashville, is in Confederate hands, so that the loss is counterbalanced by the gain. Every road south of Nashville is destroyed, and the communication with Chattanooga cut off, while Nashville itself has been turned into a huge fortress. The Confederates have made an ime portant capture at Decatur, which the Federal,' have evacuated. They have taken fifteen pontoon boats, which will prove a valuable prize. Another piece of good fortune has occurred to the Confedes rates at New Creek, Piedmont, where, according to their own accounts, ROSSER has captured 800 pri-. Boners, 8 cannon, 200 waggons, and 3,000 horses and cattle. The latter more especially will prove very acceptable acquisitions. Altogether the news does not look very favourable for Northern arms ; and considering that Federal success only means the desolation of a flourishing country, and the annihilation of a brave people, it is certainly not to be regretted. Contributions are received by Messrs. Willis and Co., Retries and Co., Coutts and Co., and by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "LOST SIR MASSINGBERD." This day, 3 vols. crown Bvo., £1 lls. 6d., MARRIED BENEATH HIM, By the Author of "LOST SIR MASSINGBERD." Macmillan and Co., London and Cambridge. :NEW WORK ON AMERICAN SOCIETY. This Day, in 1 vol., price 10s. 6d., THE DOBRS FAMILY IN AMERICA, By our Own "SPECIAL" CORRESPONDENT. This remarkable Volume comprises a true and particular account of the Men in Office—Civil, 3111itary. ant Political— the Evening Re-unions, the Mann.rs, Customs, and Pecu liarities of Society in general, bi,t especially of Washington and New York, as seen from the Diplomatic po.nt of view. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) Last Night but Two before Christmas. First Appearance of Mdlle. Adelai:e Cornelis. Madame Lemmens-Sherrington. THIS EVENING (Monday), Dec. 19, will be performed Flutow's opera, MARTHA. Lady Henrietta,, Madame Lemmena-sherrin ton ; Nancy, Mdlle. Ade aide Cornelis, from the Royal Conservatoire, Brussels, her first appearance in England; Plunkett. Mr. henry Corri ; Lord Tristan, Mr. A. Cook; Sheriff of Richmond, Mr. E. Dnssek ; and Lionel, Mr. Henry Haigh. To.conclude with the Third Act of MASANIELLO. Conductor, Mr Alfred Mellon. The Incidental Divertissement will be supported by Mdlles. Duchateau and Boni anti. Commence at half-past 7 o'clock. Private boxes, from 10s. 6d, upwards ; stalls, 7s. ; dress circle, ss. • upper boxes, 4s. ; amphith e at re stalls, :is. and 2s ; pit '2B. 6d. ; gallery, is. No charge for booking places. The box-office is open from 10 till 5. HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE.— Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, to commence with A YOUNG LAD FROM THE COUN I'RY. Messrs. G. Belmore, Fitzjames, and G. F. Neville ; Misses Helen Howard, R. Leclercq, &c. After which, Shaksoere's Play of CYMBELINE. -- ,Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. Creswick, H. Marston walter Lacy,7l. F. Neville, Edmund Phelps, A. Rayner, &C. , ; Miss Atkinson and 3liss Helen Faucit. Doors open at ha f-past Six—Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, H AYMARKET.- Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE STRANGER. Messrs. Howe, Chippendale, Itogers,Gordon, Braid, Compton, &c.; Mesdames Beatrice, Keeley, Fitzwilliam, Moore, &c. After which, ON THE SLY. Mr. Buckstone. And NO SONG NO SUPPER. Messrs. Compton, Farren, Arthur Clark, Weathersby, ex.; Mesdames Keeley, Villiers, Moore, Lovell, &o. To commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss F,nny Gwynne. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, at 8, RUY BLA.S. Messrs. Fechter, Ryder, Fitzpatrick, F. Ch rlee , M . lntyre, Garden, Raymond, Collett, C itford, Moreland ; Misses Carlotta Lezlercq, H, Percy, and Mrs. Winstanley. Preceded, at 7, by MY WIFE'S OUT. Messrs. H. Widdl. comb, F. Charles ; Misses H. Percy and E. Lavenue. To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. "Viddicomb. Doors open at half-past 6 ; commence at 7. The Box-office open daily from Elev,n till Five. Mr. H, N' TIiEATRE-R0 YA L, ADEL PHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE WORKMEN OF PARIS. 11 , Ir. Benjamin Webster; Messrs. Billin,ton, R. Phillirs, Stuart, J. Clarke, Stephenson, Eburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Woolgar (Mrs. A. Mellon), Miss 11. z.,imms. Mrs. Biliin,gton, Mrs. H. Lewis, and Miss A. Seamen. To conclude with DOING BANTLNG. Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Stephenson; Mrs. Lewis and Miss A. Seaman. It must by this time have become apparent what the real intentions of Prussia are with regard to the long-talked-of and vexed question of Schleswig- Holstein. First on one side and then on another there are rumours and reports which tend to show the meaning of much that is done and said. The last mentioned circumstance of a suspicions nature is the astounding intelligence that Prussia possesses hereditary claims to the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. It would have been more consistent to have begun with this intelligence instead of bring ing it in at the close of a protracted war. Perhaps it was thought that if a straightforward course had been adopted the feelings of many would have been set against the affair, whereas, by putting the un dertaking in the light of a national transaction, it was possible to make out a better case in the eyes of those who might be disposed to criticise and censure. It must, notwithstanding, appear strange to discerning persons that they were allowed to take a wrong view of the matter while the contest was in progress, and now, at the eleventh hour, are hurriedly informed tint the real and rightful owners of the Duchies are those who waged war an the pretence that they wished to see justice done between the parties. Such a subterfuge can not possibly answer its purp ose , so far as the inde pendent and enlightened States of Europe are concerned, and it is indeed difficult to under stand why it should have been resorted to at all, except that some persona are never so satisfied as when they can ratinceavre And mako u; A case fro 2. which they Commence at 7. ATI SS BATE M A N . —NEW T HEATRE 1 ROYAL ADELPHL—Mr. Webster begs to announce that the great Tragedienne, Miss BAT KMAN, having per formed with unparalleled success the character of " Leah" fora period of nine consecutive mo,.ths during the last season at this Theatre, and since won the plaudits ci thousands i n Liverpool, Birmingh am , Dublin, Manchester, and hlasg - ow, she will RE-APPEAR at this Establishment JANUARY 2d, 1855, in her original character of the Jewish Maiden for a limited number of nights, previously to her appearing in other illustrations of the I la , sic Drama, which are in prepa ration. The B ,x-office will be opened on Monday, Dec. 19, when places may be secured for Alias Bateman's engagement a fortnight in advance. R OYAL ST. JA M ES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. Last Six Nights of the present Management. EMINh:Nr TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA. THIS EVENING, a new Musical Drama, entitled THE BARONET ABROX AN THE RUSTIC PRIMA L ONNA : Mr. Flank Matthe.i s ; Miss Constance Roden. After which, at a quarter to Eight, a new and original Comedy Drama, in three acts, by J. Palgrave Simpson, enti tled SYRILLA ; or, STEP BY STEP. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. To concludith Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce of \VJOD OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews. On Thursday, Dec. 22, Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. On Saturday, Dec. 24, Benefit of Mr. Benjamin Webster, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. For the Benefit of Mr. Edwarl Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, LOVE IN LIVERY. Mr. Parselle; Miss Carson. After which, ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. Messrs. _Belford and Turner ; Mrs. E. Swanborough. To be followed by MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, btoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor Jugh and Handers. To conclude, with MAZEPPA. Mesdames Raynham, Simpson, &c. C OALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. 11ayqui5'.......255. per ton. I Double 21s. per ton. Top 245. „ Deep Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and i 7, South Wharf, Vaddinc,rton, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole I..gent. d I Z/IjC • LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 19, 1864. The Asia brings us civil intelligence of some importance, although the military news is yet conflicting and uncertain. President LINCOLN'S Message gives little hope of a speedy adjustment of the nati ona l diffi cult i es. He still insists upon Union pur et simple as the necessary preliminary to peace, and declares that the end of the war can only be brought about by victory on the part of the North. He s ays truly enough that as DAVIS has ucmilitakabli declared that he will accept not;lxing but the severance of the Union, it is use less to attempt ragotiation. With an estimat e d deficit of 620,000,000 doll., and a public dtbt already amounting to a ste.rtiing sum, and which, it is calculated, that another year's War will raise to fi ve hundred millions, thn PRESIDENT very coolly talks of the national resources being i ne , be.uatible, and propcses to raise 422,000,000 dole, by ioln. The public debt, he 52.5 1 , is 5 nation a l private property, and should be distributed amoog all the people. To secure this a limited amount of some future issue might be exempt from taxation and seizure from private debt under certain restric tions. Soon there will be no banks of issue but the Gavernment'e, and this, he thinks, will create a reliable sod permanent leflJenca in support of the national credit. To ordinary mortals it appears that there it very little either reliable or pernunea 111 E SUIN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1864. extricate themselves with the best grace that they can. It is the best proof that the claims of Prussia to the Duchies have been kept in the background— that they were never put forward in all the tedious and tortuous course of the discussions which took place during the last few months. Same appa rently sided with the Allied Powers in their extra vagant claims and vehement manner of prosecut ing them; but even they, the few, never remotely hinted that it was the intention of the belligerent Powers to appropriate the spoils of conquest to themselves. It is all very fine for the dodge to be tried now, but the time has gone by when it can be done with any apparent success, or a remote chance of a good t ffect. It hes been stated in two or three quarters that Prussia has inalienable claims and just rights to these Duchies. Why, in the name of common sense and reason, were they not put forward earlier, when discussion was rife on the subject, and when public attention was turned in that direction. We then heard a great deal of the hardships and injustice that were suffered by the German subjects of the King of Denmark, but we did not hear that all the inhabitants of these localities in question were the lawful subjects of the King of Prussia. By slow degrees, by inge nious devices, and by artful contrivances, however, this notion has now become cir culated, and we are left to wonder at the extraordinary infatuation which has kept those most concerned in the affair so mute during the eventful turn which has taken place in the affairs of the States in question. It is all very fine now, at the eleventh hour, for remarks to ba made and statements put forward ; but what is the use of such exhibitions when we know that they have been purposely withheld until their utterance cannot be challenged in a material man ner, and taken up so to damage the intentions of their originators and promulgators. In a letter in the Standard of the other day, signed " A Rus sian,'' this complicated affair is gone into at great length, and those who glance at it will see how ingenious and dexterous are the contrivances by which the worse is made out to be the better cause. German philosophy is at all times very abstruse and mystical, and difficult for simple folks to under s and; and certainly the notion of relationship here made out is remarkably involved and intermixed; but one thing is plain, and that is the right of Prussia to the possession of these disputed Duchies, and doubtless the terms here employed by the writer are significant enough of the future inten tions and determined doctrines of the powers that be in Berlin. It is said that the Prussian Govern-. ment wili be held responsible to the Prussian people if it should prove itself too weak to make its ancient hereditary rights respected. This will then most likely be the test of the new regime upon which we are now entering. The Government of King WILLIAM will only be fulfilling the wishes of the people and giving satis. faction to those who have a full right to be heard in such an important matter as the resumption by Prussia of her just rights, and the possession of her inalienable inheritance that right and reason alike assure to her. The old question again arises, how ever, why were we not told of all this before. If he subject had been as well ventilated as it ough o have been it would have been heard of by this time far and near, and we should not now ba in. formed of its importanoe and essential bearings upon the point at issue for the first time. It is evident that this part of the vexed question of SchleswipHolstein was purposely kept back ntiti the convenient period approached for its discussion. It was deemed expedient that things should take their course, and at the fitting juncture the thin end of the wedge should be inserted, and the momentous undertaking inaugurated whose ultimate resu should witness the triumph of German extortion under the convenient misnomer of Russian rights. It is now too late for the witnessing nations of Europe to interfere—the case has been allowed to go by default, but it is important that it should be seen how much and how far those are to blame who let the golden opportunity slip by which, once passed, can never be restored. Had our Government followed the wise initiative of the French Empire, and taken up this Danish affair in good time, how much harm, wrong, and suffering might have been avoided ; but, influenced by most mistaken notions, Lord PALMERSON'S Cabinet turned a deaf ear to ill who attempted to arrest the course of Prussian aggresasion, and in all probability neither this generation nor the next will see the end of the il advised inactivity, atd the effects of the perverted udgment. Had a firm and decided stand been made, as it ought to have been done, at the outse of this affair, we should never have heard anything of the hereditary rights of Prussia to the Duchies; but it is like the adage of " give an inch and an ell will be taken," for our cowardice and inaction have brought out the latent qualities of greed and grasp. ing which are strong in the German nature, and only need opportunity to develop them to an in• jurious titent. What with one thing and another, it would seem as if nothing that is done and said by this country oan now stem the tide of oppression which has set in in the affairs relating to these die• prated Duchies ; at all events it is less of conse, quence to dwell on the subject in order that we may be wiser for the future. The records of the past bear truths of awful import and dire significance, which we may read, mark, and learn to our pro• fit, if not to our pleasure. The page of history has seldom had a more infamous transaction to record than that which appertains to Schleswig- Holstein, and the sequel of the story may yet astonish those who would not believe the treachery which was all along at work. MR. HOLMAN HUNT purposes making a second lengthened sojourn in the East. He will probably leave this country for Bagdad early in the spring, with the object of painting a Scripture subject on an unusually large scale. A WELCH UNIVERSITY.—XSO,OOO is to be sub. scribed in Wales towards the foundw ion of a University for the people of the twelve counties, and an appeal is to be made to the House of Commons for aid in the matter. A considerable portion of the money is already promised, and future meetings of the promoters of the scheme are expected to enable them to complete the sum above named. TUE HEY. C. H. SPURGEON (or Mr. Spurgeon, as he now prefers to style himself) will start a ❑ew Monthly Magazine, entitled " The Sword and the Trowel : a Record of Combat with Sin and Labour for the Lord," on the Ist January. It is said that the Magazine will con tai❑ articles of general interest, and an account of tha pro gress made by the numerous churches started by Mr Spurgeon, or by the church over which he is pastor. Rumour further says it is the intention of the rev. gentle man to compile a new hymn-b2ok. His sermon on " Bap tismal Regeneration,'' which has recently made such a stir in religious circles, has reached the enormous sale of 200,000 copies. FRENCH AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION,—Any one who has undergone the misery of reading an English translation of Balzer! or Victor Hugo will he able to appreciate the inadequacy of the French language to re produce works like those of " Boz or Michael Angelo Tit march." " Jearties's Diary," when Cone into French under the title of "Jean de la Pluche," must lose perforce the delicate wit which redeems the original from wearisome absurdity. We remember once meeting with a French translation of David Copperfleld. Ihe author was obviously in a terrible strait when he had to translate the unintel ligible exclamation " Goroo, Goroo I" with which the old Jew slopseller at Deptford greeted David on his flight to * Dover. The nearest approximation the translator could arrive at was the paraphrase " Par lea cornea de Moise I" To any one who appreciates the vague idea which obviously floated through the translator's mind in the selection of this oath it will be obvious how utterly impossible it must hays been for him to enter into the true spirit of the author of LITERATURE. Reuben aledNeott ; or, Vie Coming Man. By M. W. Savage. One Vol., pp. 400. Chapman and Hall, Three capital novels I‘er Savage has written in his time—The Bachelor of the Albany, Reuben Medlicott, and The Falcon Family. The first men tioned of the three is incomparably the best of them. Nevertheless, in saying this, we mean no disparage ment to the other two, each of which, in its own peculiar way, is excellent. Upon all three of these fictions, the author has manitestly bestowed con siderable pains. But, when he wrote The Bachelor of the Albany, he was in the cue —he was in the vein—he was at his best—inoffensively caustic and slyly humorous. Several years have expired since the latest of these three fictions was penned and published. Since which time, the writer has been otherwise occupied than in contributing to ima ginative literature. He has in the interim been engaged in the responsible labours of jour• nalism, for several years editing a distin guished weekly newspaper the conduct of which has been successively entrusted to men of letters, critics, poets, politicians—ae distinguished as Leigh Hunt, Albany Fonblanque, John Forster, Mr Savage himself, and—since Mr Swage's with drawal from the editorial chair—Henry Morley. By a curious misapprehension on the part of one of the writers in the Saturday _Review, Mr Savage was formally charged, a week or two since, with having been, so to speak, guilty of a flagrant anachronism, first of all in having written this book at all, and secondly, in having published it, when so written, only as recently as nowadays, that is in the year of grace, 1864. The fact of the matter being that " Reuben Medlicott" was penned and published a good many years ago—say as many at the very least as sixteen or seventeen. The Saturday Review altogether unconscious of this, apparently—regard ing the present issue of "Reuben Medlicott" as the first edition of it, instead of recognising it to be (as it really is) simply a reprint. Produced nearly 20 years ago, thestory here under notice is descriptive of English society in London and in the Provinces, pre cisely as it was then—long before the male popula• tion of England had dreamt of leaving off shaving— long before the female population had a notion of distending their petticoats with steel bands, mis. called crinoline. As a picture of that byegone period, the story is faithful to a degree, to a t, to a hair—it is faithful, just within the limits of carica ture. " Unstable as water," Rueben enters upon life vaguely, dreamily, as one of those " curled darlings," WllO seem always in search of—what they never settle down to—a profession ! He has his Quaker proclivities. He has an overwhelming laxity of speech—what Jack calls " the gift of the gab"—fancying himself an ora tor, when he is only, if the truth must be told, an egregious bore. He goes philandering about the world as a professed—but wholly impracticable— peilanthropist. He has a rather dull-witted cou❑- try parson for his father, and a bine-stookinged, green-spectacled, soi-disant strongenainded, but, in honest trutb, exceedingly narrow-minded fribbler in arts, sciences, and letters, for his mother. He imagines himself —and is supposed to be by his friends and relations—a genius, almost one might say the genius (of the age)—" The Corn ing Man." He is " everything by starts and nothing long." He gets into difficulties. He marries a Qaa keress and himself turns almost a Quaker. When in the House of Commons he is for a time one of the joints in the tail of O'Connell. But—the chief no ticeable circumstance in regard to Rueben Medli cott is this—that he has an Uncle I The Very Reverend Dean Wyndham is the character of the Book. In hia way, he is equal to Mr. Anthony Trollope's delightful Archdeacon Greatly. We have never enough of him —any more than we have of the Archdeacon. The indivi duality of Dean Wyndham is perfectly realized. His huge bulk, his immense appetite, his loud voice, his boisterous and overwhelming manner, his truculence, his erudition,, his prejudices, his passion for dabbling in bricks and mortar by wholesale and by retail, his marriage (when between seventy and eighty years of age) with a pretty young creature who might have been his granddaughter, eventually even his rapt affectio❑ for his new-born son —every particu lar recounted in regard to the old Dean we read of with a quiet bat intense amusement. The character ie a creation. It lives i❑ our remem brance long after we have closed these amusing chapters descriptive of the career and fortune, the adventures and misadventures of the Coming Man —that Man who is always Coming out but wbo never does Come out (worth speaking of) after a —Reuben Medlicott. The Small House at Allington. By Anthony Trollope. New Edition. Oae Vet. pp. 598. Chapman and Hall. The popularity of Mr Anthony Trollope, as now adays the foremost among our fashionable novelists, receives in this handsome volume a new and season able illustration. It seems co mparatively only the other day that "The Surat! Rouse at Allington," as a serial story, drew to its close in the Cornhill Magazine appearin g , as it did then, immediately afterwards, in a separate form, es two elegant volumes, containing b ti rapidly ex h auste d , within them the whole of Mr, M illais ' embellish ments. Scarcely, however, has i t appeared in that snoreedition ofs t l t whole of th e or i g i na l a new, cheaper, and compacto r i aeue of the tale becomes requisite according t o the vi ew o f t h e c o publishers, yhegwaiosrek when, having the beep and, as a matter of course, appears 'Accordingly. As a gitt bo o k it comes out, now, precisely at the righ t momeet, before Christmas and the New Yecir. In some respects it is one of -e 0 very c l everes t among Mr. T the egetches of commonplace people of the middle class, interspersed here and there, very sparsely, with specimens of the Upper Ten Thousand. About the only really charming character in the story is that of the heroine—a good, sweet-tempered, womanly, thoroughly Eng lish girl. As to the hero, or rather, we should say, as to the Iwo heroes of the book —well, they are simply detestable. For our °cirri part we should find it difficult to decide which of them in his own peculiar way is the more detestable—whether Adolphus Crosbie or Johnny ,Eames. Eich of them is, to our thinking, and in the most unmitigated sense of the phrase, a snob. But, while Crosbie is, in addition to that pleasant little peculiarity of his, a mean-hearted scoundrel ----Eames is, besides being a snob, a bit of a prig and a bit of a bore. Upon the whole, therefore, we should rather be disposed to say that the scoundrel is just a trifle the more interesting of the twain—he is at any rate not nearly such an ass. Adolphus Croshie, however, is a wretched vulgarian, tufelounter, toadeater, and all that sort of thing. Insomuch that it becomes a gratifica tion to the reader to learn all about the slights, indignities, insults, and what not, showered in the later half of the work upon his devoted head by one or another—hove he gets punched on the head, kicked, indulged with the egreeahie little luxury of a black eye, and so forth—even though the puncher, the kicker, and the black eye manufac turer happens to be Johnny. As for the aristocrats of the tale, they are happily very exceptionally bad specimens of the class—other wise a speedy revolution might confidently be looked forward to. Crosbie's father in-law, for example, is, though wearer upon occasion of a coronet and a robe of ermine, as brutal a specimen of the grans home as could be found anywhere in the three kingdoms, even in the lowest of the back slums of the metrapolis. Johnny's friend, again, the fat, vulgar, old earl, would pas, muster almost anywhere, we Photld imagine, for a grazier rather than for an earl. The high and mighty Mr Palliser, moreover —heir to a dukedom though he is—weighs miserably upon our remembrance as a dreadful dullard. The old squire is good, his crabbed old gardener is excellently good—the Burton Crescent pople are odious, Cradle and the Lnpexes being especially or superlatively odious— the Government cffices, the boards at those 810110, old Hal) Scoter, end the like, are depicted in Mr, Anthony Trollope's vary happiest manner: As a whole, this tale is thoroughly readable; and, more than that, it is one containing within it lifelike photographic sketches of society as it actually is in the west.end drawing rooms and the west-end shops, in offices among pens and pouncet, in gardens among croquet loops and mallets—the men and women of these times, respectively bearded and crinolined, living and moving, and talking and act ing in the pages of our novelist, precisely as they live, and move, and talk and act, within the range of our own acquaintance. THE LYCEUM THEATRE, Brilliant Success of Fechter's Ruy Blas. It will scarce , y be matter for surprise —it will certainly be a subj,:ct for congratulation—to the general public, when they learn that Mr, Fechter's masterly impersonation of Ruy Blas has proved to be a success so enormous at the Lyceum Theatre that it is announced for repetition —every evening until further notice! All the preparations making at that theatre for Christmas Novelties have, in consequence, had to be put aside—this all-sufficint attraction of "Ruy Bias" filling the house nightly. Upon this, the latest—as it will be remembared to have been also the earliest—of his triumphs in this country, we would offer to Mr. Ftchter our very cordial congratulations. JOHN LEECH. It is a great mistake, says a writer in the Cornhill Map :Alm, to suppose that pleasant labour is not labour, and that what is done rapidly involves but a slight effort. All con. centrated endeavour wears the mind, and it was well said by a painter to one who underrated the worth of a picture produced in a week, " You forget that I have spent my whole life in learning to paint that picture in so shoot time." But Mr Leech's working was more rapid in appear. ance than it was in reality . He formed his ideas very quickly; he saw his way in a moment. Mr Samuel Lucas went to him once for a little sketch, which he wanted as the initial letter to a . tale that was about to appear in Once a Week. It was the story of a clown who had to crack his jokes in a circuit while his wife was in her dying agonies. She was a columbine who, standing on horseback, used to leap through hoops. On the occasion of one of her leaps she missed her footing, fell to the ground, and injured herself fatally. To illustrate this tale a sketch was wanted, suggesting the initial letter I. Before Mr Lucas had ceased speaking the thing was done. "I think this is what you want," said ,Mr Leech, showing hifa the first draught of the following sketch, which, by the way, is remarkable not alone for its instantaneousness, but also as an indication of what he, who generally took a humorous view of life, could achieve in the direction of tragedy. See, again, how perfect, and how vital, is the alight suggestion of the horse underneath. When Mr Mark Lomon went to . him with the suggestion of a cartoon for Punch, he was always struck with Mr Leech's rapidity of understanding. He would sometimes knock off one of his large cartoons in an hour, or an hour and a half, while the friendly editor chatted with him over a cigar. But although Mr Leech was thus rapid in his conceptions, he very rarely trusted himself to draw in the first instance upon the wood; an I the artist who first of all makes a tolerably complete sketch upon paper, then laboriously transfers the sketch to the block by means of a tracing, and then again minutely fills in the details upon the wood, can bcarcely be described as a very rapid worker. At all events it is plain that his work gave him an immense deal of minute trouble. One consequence of this, however, is that nearly all his first sketches upon paper remain, end .heso will probably be soon exhibited by the public. They are of course rough in comparison with his finished work, but in all their roughness they are sometimes even more powerful. In the very last work on which he was engaged in contrast between the bold lines of his first sketch and the minute elaboration of the picture, in so far as it has been transferred to the wood, is more remarkable than ever. lhis careful elaboration will, to some extent, be seen in the copy of it which we have been permitted to publish, The block itself is too precious a possession to be cut by the engraver; but Mr Mark Lemon, jun., has, by n.eans of photography, succeeded in transferring its lines to another block which has been cut for our use. The scene is one of a series of what he called Dogleeves, which ho intended for the forthcoming Almanac. It is entitled "An Afternoon on the Flegs—Compliments ;" and between the key and the dog there is the faint outline of a huntsman who is supposed to be saying—" She is a beautiful Creechur, ain't she, my L ely ? She is cur great Favourite—and Lord °veneer always says that for Symmetry and High Breeding, and for Beautiful Nose, she's just like your Ladyship." On the day before his death he wrote to his kind friend and publisher, Mr Evans, that he had been suffering from "much annoyance and disturbance." The end of the sad story has been told in the newspapers, but one cannot help dwelling on it, in the knowledge that if Mr Leech could have found rest and peace, he might have lived to delight us for many years to come. On that Friday before his death Dr Quain assured him that his only chance was in rest; and when, a few hours before he fainted away, he asked Mr ilufchinson's peruission to work at some drawing— that last unfinished sketch of the lady and the dog—it was given only on the express understanding that it would be an amusement to him. Three hour 3 afterwards, no physician being near him—Dr Quain being out of town, and his other medical friends having left him to rest—his pain returned to him, and in the anguish of it he died. His pain came to him almost while he was in the act of catering for our en tertainment, and he who has done more than perhaps any of his contemporaries, not even excepting Mr Dickens (for no art of words can in this respect keep pace with that of the pencil), to amuse the present generation, died in agonies which he said were too great to be endured. The news of his death rang through London with a dismal shock. "There was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead." In what home was not John Leech an inmate F Personally ho shunned observation ;he was always very quite and retiring; and few but friends could recognise his handsome face and fine tall figure in a crowd—not even when he rode past on Red Mullet, a pony for him at least so diminu'ive that people declared it was not a pony at all, bat Punch's dog Toby doing duty for one. He, however, who was so little known to sight, was, for a private person, the best known man in England, and his death was a death in our homes. Balzac's Poverty and Magnificence. Three pennyworth of bread, and two of m ilk, and three of sausage-meet, prevented my dying of hunger, and kept my brain singularly clear. My lodging cost me three sous a day. I burnt my midnight oil for three sous. I was my own house maid. To save the washerwaman, I wore flannel shirts. I warmed myself by charcoal, which is cheap and cheerless. The Jardies became an object of public curiosity. Many travelled from Paris by the railway to ;Tulle d'Avray, only to look at the outside of Balz ao's Folly ! There it was, perched up on the steep and slippery ground. The shutters were green ; and truly the house needed shade, for only one tree was near it, and the tree was a huge walnut tree—of historical local celebrity. For some years the inside of this abode was furnished only by Balzac's imagination, as thus explained by Leon Gozlan, his frequent visitor there .—" Upon the bare,stucco walls of each empty room, sentences such as the following were inscribed in charcoal : —' Here, an adornment in pure Pares marble Here, a pedestal in cedar wood. Here, a ceiling painted by Eugeue Delacroix. Here, a carpet by Aubusson. Here, a mantelpiece of chiselled marble. Here, doors like those of Trianon. Here, a mosaic inlaid floor, formed of all the rare woods of the isles. Balzao not only allowed jesting upon this ideal furniture, but he laughed even more than I did one day when, in characters still larger than this, I wrote upon the wall of :As own room, which was as empty as the other rooms. Here, a picture by Raphael, beyond all price, and such as never has yet been seen,' " The same guest, whilst ren dining testimony to Balzac's hospitality, declares that the host himself drank nothing but water, and ate little meat, but that he consumed a quantity of fruit. "It was in one. of the lower compartments of the Jardine that we dined at six ChiOCk j although Balzac himself sometimes did not join us until des sert, but he was superb in vegetarian panta grizelisme. Dressed in his ordinary costume at home (i.e. a white cashemiro or flannel robe), his cravat eff, his shirt open, it was a sight to see him, fruit•knife in hand, cutting into the pulp of a pear, langhing, drinking water, and I would add, talking—bnt BalzAc talked little at a table. He let others talk ; he laughed from time to time quietly, or else burst forth like a bomb if any say ing pleased him. Then, his chest inflated, his shoulders danced, and- it seemed as though Rae helais were before us. Wine was drank freely at Balzac's table, often too freely.--French Authors at Home. The extraordinary action, Travers v. Wilde, which has been occupying the law courts in Dublin for several days, terminated on Saturday. After a brilliant speech by Mr ;Butt for the plainliff, the Chief Justice summed up. The jury, after a brief deliberttion, returned a verdict for Miss Travers, with one farthing damages. -' LA PRINCESSE DE LAMBELLE, s:.► Vie, sa Mort," is the name of a work which has been a great success in Faris. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 17 The Queen, with their 1-oyal Highnesses Prin• cess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left Windsor Caste this morn. ing at a quarter to 11 o'clock for Osborne. Toe suite in attendance consisted of the Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe, the Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Mrs Bruce, the Hon. Florence Seymour, Lieutenant-General ttie Hon. C. Grey, Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Lieutenant. Colonel Du Plat, and Mr Duff. OSBORNE, Dec. 18 , Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, arrived at o,lborne shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday. Her Majesty crossed over from Gosport in the royal yacht Alberta, Captain his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen. This morning the Rev J. Prothero performed Divine service at Osborne before her Majesty, Princess Helena, and Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 18. The official Gazette publishes a decree offering interest at the rate of 8 per cent. on all sums depo sited in the Government Bank of deposit for fixed terms of from four to Eight months, and 9 per cent. for periods of eight to twelve months. The Notocias of to-day says:—" Mmy despatches have been received from the provinces stating that the reinforcement cf the Government has been gene rally approved of." THE BRAZILS. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 14. Exchange, 49k. Ounces, 2,915. Wet salted ox hides nothing doing. Dry American, 32 to 33, firm. Wool, 80 to 100. Lumber, 33 to 40, flat. Fiour, 6to 61, dull. Refined sugar, 18 to 19, declining. Imports unchanged. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 17. The Ripon and Delta left here at 5 p.m. today. The former may be expected at Marseilles about the 23d, and the latter at Southampton about the 30th inst. OUTWARD MAIL OF NOV. 27, DEC. 3. The Behar left Btu z for Bombay on the 12th ins CADIZ, DEC. 18. The steamer Puerto Rico has arrived here from Havana. FRANCE. BOURSE, Deo. 17.—Tee Three per Cents. are now quoted ex quarterly dividend. The market is dull, bat without any further decline in prices. Threes for the Acconnt are unvaried at 66f. 25c., Mobilier have slightly improved, beinw now at 921 f. 25c. R tilway Market rather more animated. The market left off as follows : 41 per Cents .. 93 7 5 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do, end month 65 30 Credit Mobilier 923 75 Do, end month 923 75 Bank Shares 3570 Credit Fonder 1225 Roman .. 70 75 RA IL Italian L0an...... 65 45 Do. end month.... 65 55 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican . 50 75 Russian ........ tiustrian ... 81 Spanish Threee.., Home Debt Deferred VAYei. Cash. Account. Orleans , - Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 876 25 .. 872 50 Southern Western - ___ Eastern .... 490 .. 491 25 Sardinian Austrian Loirbard , 505 .. 505 North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona Departure of the Queen for Osborne, WINDSOR, Dec. 17. The Queen left Windsor Castle at a quarter toll this morning for Osborne. The royal party drove to the Windsor terminus of the Great Western Railway in close carriages, that occupied by the Queen being drawn by a couple of milk white horses. At the station a special train of seven carriages, including two state saloons, had been provided by the Landon and South Wes. tern Railway Company, the luggage and horses be longing to the royal household having been previ ously despatched . I❑ spite of the wintry aspect of the day there was a numerous assemblage of spectators, and the plat= form was thronged with persons who had assem bled to witness her Majesty's departure. The special train, in charge of Mr Grierson, who accompanied it to Baaingtoke, left Windsor at 10.55 a.m., just nine minutes behind the time arranged for its departure, and, drawn by a Great Western engine, proceeded at a steady rate along the narrow gauge of the latter line—via Slough. After leaving the latter junction the pace was quickened, and Reading, which was enveloped in a heavy snow storm, was soon made. Here and at the stations to Basingstoke, which was reached at 12.3 p.m., the platforms were crowded with spectators. Her Majesty was received with marks of the -greatest respect, though all were silent. There were no guards of honour either at Winds eor or Gosport, as the journey WO conducted with the greatest quietude. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY'S ALMANAC FOR 1865.—T0 deal with all the facts embodied in this instructive volume, would involve us in a larger t-:sk than we have space for; we must therefore be content with some of the more salient features presented to us. The first tact gleaned from these pages is the rapid yet regular pro gress presented by the career of the Royal Insurance Com pany. Who, it might be asked, among the millionaires of Europe would well vie with it in position. seeing that its income is more than £600,000 per annum, m hile its accumu lated resources exceed one million sterling. To high in tegrity it has conjoined a conspicuous liberality, while the promptitude with which every claim has been met, sup plies a letter of recommendation wherever its agencies are to be found. An unquestionably large experience has en abled the Royal to calculate risks with almost unparalleled exactitude, while year by year fresh accessions have been made to its stability, until at the last annual meeting we find no less than £156,000 added to its reserve fund. Moreover, the office has been highly complimented by an authoritative financier for the accuracy with which its balance sheets have been presented to the House of Commons ; and so ex traordinary have been its successes, that in the last return of percentage duty paid to the Crown, the Royal is again placed at the head of all insurance offices as regards in crease of business, Economy of expenditure is also another important feature of the management of this company, and goes far to justify its strong hold upon the confidence of the public. No failing businesses have been purchased, no amalgamations effected. The Royal has been content to remain solos in gloria. A very cruel csso of breach of promise of marriage was tried in the Court of F..xclargaer on SAltuday. The defendant, a pubiican named Sadler, had, under promise of marriage, seduced a young girl named Aerons, only 14 years of age. The judge in summing up commented severely on the conduct of the defendant, and the j ury gave the plaintiff £5OO damages. LIFE,BOATEL—During the past two years the lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have been manned, on all occasicne, by about 12,000 persons; and it is a gratifying and encouraging fact to find that, with the exception of the two poor men who jumped out of the Tynemouth lifeboat on the night of the 24th ult., not a single life has been lest from the lifeboats during these two years. With one or two exceptions the boats have been readily and promptly manned during the fiercest storms. The National Lifeboat Institution OAS now one hundro and thirty-eight lifeboats under its management, THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House oi Representatives : Again the blessings of health and abundant bar vests claim our profoundest gratitude to Almighty God. T e condition of our foreign affairs is reasonably satisfactory. RELATIONS WITH OTHER STATES, Mexico continues to be a theatre of civil war: While our political relations with that country have undergone no change, we have at the same time strictly maintained neutrality between the belli gerents. At the request of th e St a t es o f C os t a Rica and Nicaragua, a competent engineer has been authorised to make a survey of the River San Juan. It is a source of much satisfaction that the difficulties which for a moment excited some political appro• hensions and c tined a clueing of the inter oceanic transit route have been amicably ad justed, and that there is a good prospint that the route will soon be reopened with an in crease of capacity and adaptation. We could not ex aggerate either the commercial or political impart" anew of that great improvement. It would be doe itig injustice to an important South American State not to acknowledge the directness, frankness, and cordiality with which the 'Malted States of Colom bia have entered into intimate relations with this Government. A Claims Convention has been cell* stituted to complete the unfinished work of the one which closed its session in 1861. The new liberal constitution of Venezuela having gone into effect with the universal acquiescence of the people, the Government under it has been re' cognised, and diplomatic intercourse with it has been opened in a cordial and friendly spirit. The long-deferred Ayes Island claim has been satisfactorily paid and discharged. Mutual Par ments have been made of the claims awarded by the late joint commission for the settlement of claims between the United States and Peru. An earnest and cordial friendship continues to exist between the two countries, and such eff.,rts as were in my power have been used to remove misunderstanding, and avert a threatened wa r between Peru and Spain. Oar relations are of the most friendly nature with the Argentine Re public, Bolivar, Costa Rica, Paraguay, San Salva dor, and Hayti. Daring the past year no differences of any kind have arisen with any of these Repub lics; and, on the other hand, their sympathies with the United States are constantly expressed with cordiality and earnestness, The claim arising from the seizure of the cargo of the brig Macedonia in 1821 has been paid in full by the Government of Chili. Civil war continues in the Spanish part of San Domingo, apparently without prospect of an early close. Official correspondence has been freely open"' with Liberia, and it gives us a pleasing view of social and political progress in that Republic. It may be expected to derive new vigour from Awe' rican influence, improved by the rapid disappear,* ante of slavery in the United States. I solicit your authority to furnish to the Republic a gunboat at a moderate cost, to be reimbursed to the United States by instalments. Such a vessel is needed for the safety of that State against the native Afiican races, and in Liberian hands it would be more effective in arresting the African slave trade than a squadron in our own hands. The possession of the least organised naval force would stimulate a generous ambition in the Republic, and the confi` dence which we should manifest by furnishing it would win forbearance and favour toward the colony from all civilised nations. The proposed overland telegraph between America and Europe, by the way of Behring's straits and Asiatic Russia, which was sanctioned by Congress at the last session, has been undertaken, under very favourable circumstances, by an association of American citizens, with the cordial goodwill and support as well of this Government as of those of Great Britain and Russia. Assurances have been received from most of the South American States of their high appreciation of the enterprise, and their readiness to co-operate in constructing lines tributary to that worlthen` circling communicitions. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. I learn with much satisfaction that the noble design of a telegraphic communication between the Eastern coast of American and Great Britain has been renewed, with full expectation of its early accomplishment. Thus it is hoped that with the return of domestic peace, the country will be able to resume, with energy and advantage, her former high career 01 commerce and civilisation. Our very popular and estimable representative in Egypt di e d i n April last. An unpleasant altercation which arose between the temporary incumbent of the office and the Go: verament of the Pacha, resulted in a suspension of intercourse. The evil was promptly corrected co the arrival of the successor in the Consulate, and our relations with Egypt, as well as our relations with Barbary powers, are entirely satisfactory. The rebellion which has long been flagrant China, has at last been suppressed with the co-oPe‘ rating good offices of the Government and of the, other Western comm erc i a l St a t es . Th e j u dic:o consular establishment has become very difficult and onerous, and it will need legislative requisition t ° adapt it to the extension of our commerce, and the more intimate intercourse which has been WU* * tuted with the Goverment and people of that vast empire. China seems to be accepting with hearty goo d will the conventional laws which. regulate conune rd cial and social intercourse among the AVcste ril nations. Owing to the peculiar situation of Japan and the anomalous form of its Goverment the action of th a empire in performing treaty stipulations is inc °l3 ` . stant and caprisions. Nevertheless, good progre 66 has been effected by the Western Powers mO l4 with enlightened concert. Our own peounlorf ;claims have been allowed or put in course of settle ment, and the Inland Sea has been re-opened t commerce. There is also reason to believe that these Pr!" ceedings have increased rather than diminished t me friendship of Japan toward the United States. INSURRECTIONARY PORTS. The ports of Norfolk, Fernandina and Pensacola 11.811° been opened by proclamation. It is hoped that foreig" merchants will now consider whether it is not eater T-Jll .°ci more profitable to themselves as well as just to the 1" o States to resort to thote and other open ports than it is it• pursue through many hazards, and at vast cost, a C olltr b v band trade with other ports which are closed, if effot by actual military occupation, at least by a lawful and '' et blockade. LAVE TRADERS. For myself', I have S no doubt a the power and duty of th; executive, under the law of nations ' to exclude anemia' ° the human race from an asylum in the United States. If Congress should think that proceedings in such caße°, lack the authority of law, it ought to be further r e g ulatea by it. I recommend that provision be made for effectu.6.7o preventing foreign slave traders from acquirfng cl °lni f l and facilities for their criminal occupation in our coul2" REBEL BELLICIEREN6Y It is possible that if it were a new and open question, maritime Powers, with the light they now enjoy , ~ not concede the privileges of a naval belligerent to file in surgents of the United states, destitute as they ar e, ,f,... always have been, equally of ships and of ports an d j-- boura• fo r e Disloyal emissaries have been neither less assideell: more successful during the last year than they we re b to that time, in their efforts under favoui of that p rivilege, embroil our c . ountry in foreign wars. no 1 ° The desire end determination of the maritime , an defeat that design are believed to be as sincere as, al' --- not b© more earnest than, our own. Nevertheless especially in Eraziliacno-AalPnL:l3l:oi: unforeseen political difficulties have arieeth ~,,, the northern . boundary of the United States which hay ports, and -- 0 re required and are likely to continue to require the practice of constant vigilance, and United t an d conciliatory spirit on the part of the State"' as well as of the nations concerned, and their Governrneol; Commissioners have been appointed under the trealY Wii.. Great Britain on the adjustment of the claims of the liu u n son 'a Bay and Puget Sound Agricu l tura l Coropial i e s 1 Oregon, and are now proc.,Tedi::g to the execu4on of tits trust assigned to them. TIED CANADA BORDER. . at tO In view of the in security of life in the region ac ..1" xrnrtfirtign t ete I 141 at Ihe 4 th e °] Eir , t(it otr tp o. 4 t 41 tDor - , 4 1 , kt 41 It ® t k t th '4l